Combined cigarette box and match container



'Sept. 11, 1928. 1,683,664

A. R. GRAHAM COMBINED CIGARETTE BOX AND MATCH CONTAINER FiTe d Dec. 27, 1926 Inventor A.Hraham box inclosed position. 7 Itiwill then be noted that one of the flaps 8a 1 broken away. I the match removed by opening one of the 90 ings in which a preferred example of my in- As many changes could be made in the 95 Patented Sept. 11, 1928. r i v p g UNITED "STATES PA ENroFFi-cr; f

'mnn'r ROLAND GRAHAM, or Tononmo, ONTARIO, CANADA. 2,

COMBINED CIGARETTE BOX AND MATCH CONTAINER. i

Application filed December 27, 1926. Serial No.157,348.

This invention relates to improvements in and provided on opposite sides substantially combined cigarette boxes and match conmidway of its length with flaps or side pieces tainers and the objects of the invention are to 12 and 13. The strip is transversely creased provide a neat, inexpensive, and convenient to form the end piece 14 and the flap 15 5 container for cigarettes and matches that can forming part of the cover. It is then creased be readily carried in the pocket and thus be at 16 to form the sections 17 and 18, the self-contained overcoming the inconvenience sides 12 and 13 being notched as at 19 to proof carrying cigarettes in one box and matches vlde flaps 19 adapted to be automatically in another, the major portion of applicantis closed when the box is withinthecasing and 10 case being adapted for cigarettes and the to be manually operated when the box is other and minor portion being adapted to partially pulled out ofthe casing to permit hold matches. v matches or the like to be taken therefrom, to

Further objects are to provide a case of this permit the sections 17 and 18 to be brought description made from fibrous or other thin together in creased position, and then stuck l5 material suitably folded and creased, thereby a suitable adhesive to form the double ply by enabling it to be produced at a very low partition 20. The remaining portion of the 1 t. strip of cardboard is then creased-at 21 to With the foregoing and other objects in form an extension 22 of the bottom 23 of the view, hereinafter more fully disclosed, the box and is again creased at 245to form the 20 device comprises the combination with an end 25 of the box, the remaining uncreased outer casing ofacontainer preferablymadeof section 26forming the cover with the unfibrous material and including a single strip creased section 15. of cardboard or the like folded to form a box It will thus be seen that when the sections and creased on itself and connected together 17 and 18 are creased and joined together 5 to form a partition, dividing the box llltO tWO forming a double ply partition that the sec- 7 a t nt 7 o tions 23 and 24 will with this partitionpro- Referring now to the drawings in which vide a compartment 27 for matches or the like characters of reference indicate correlike, the rest of the box being composed of the sponding parts in each figure. compartment 28 for cigarettes. Both cover 7 30 Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of the box sections 26 and 15 will, as the results of creases closed with the outer casing thereon. therein, become hinged on the main body por- Figure 2 is a similar view of the box in tion. The side flaps 12 and 13 are also longiopen position. 7 tudinally creased at 29 to give them a hinged- Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of the ly mounted effect.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the blank strip 26 is much larger than the other flap 15 showing the creases. forming the hinged cover for the box. In Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail of a corner this way when only a match is required the of the match holding compartment partly long flapped end of the box is pulled out and Fig. 6 is a longitudinal Section Of a m0 flaps 19*. When a cigarette is required the fied form with the partition formed in the Short fiapped end of the box is partially centre of the box. 7 pulled out when the cigarettes in the com- Referring more particularly to the drawa t f, 28 are adil ib1 vention is disclosed, A designates the outer above construction, and many apparently casing and B the container or'box adapted to, widely different embodiments of my invenslidably fit thereinto and formed, as illustion, within the scope of the claim, constructtrated in Figure 4, from a strip of cardboard ed withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope 50 or the like 10 with rounded'corners as at 11 thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawing be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. 7

What I claim as my invention is A container structure of the character described comprising ablank folded ,tot'provide bottom, side 'arid endwallsysaid blank being doubled upon itself intermediate the extending between the side walls in prox 10 imity to and parallel with one of said end walls, the portions of the side walls extending between said partition wall and the last mentioned end wall being partially severed from the bottom of the blank to serve as lat- 15 er'ally movable flaps.

. ABBER-T ROLAND GRAHAM. 

